My Educational Programs / Sessions @ Cultivate

Back2Basics: Media & Fertility Workshop
Saturday, July 15 • 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Growers will review the basics of producing healthy crops through an exploration of media, monitoring soilless substrates, and a deep dive on plant nutrition. Participants will engage in a series of seven hands-on learning labs covering the basics of soilless media production, monitoring soil health, basics of plant nutrition and how to create a fertility management plan, how to monitor plant health, and best nutrient diagnosis practices, as well as how to interpret leaf tissue analysis. The workshop includes a tour of the innovative and cutting-edge Ohio State University Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex, a newly built CEA center at the forefront of growing practices.

                



    Dr. Garrett Owen, Assistant Professor- Sustainable Greenhouse & Nursery Systems at OSU  
    Dr. W. Garrett Owen earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Horticulture from North Carolina State University. In 2017, Garrett earned his Ph.D. in Horticulture from Purdue University. In 2023, Garrett joined the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Greenhouse and Nursery Production Systems. His responsibilities are in floriculture and nursery crop production with an 50% Extension, 30% research, and 20% teaching appointment. His major program initiatives include floriculture crop production, plant nutrition and growth regulation, nutritional monitoring, and crop diagnostics. Before joining OSU, Garrett served as the Greenhouse and Controlled-Environment Outreach Specialist for Southeastern Michigan and Metro-Detroit with Michigan State University and as an Assistant Professor of Greenhouse and Controlled-Environment Horticulture at the University of Kentucky. He is also a leader and contributor of two national Extension initiatives – e-GRO (Electronic Grower Resources Online; www.e-gro.org) and Fert, Dirt, and Squirt (Nutritional Monitoring of Greenhouse Crops; https://fertdirtsquirt.org).


    The Ohio State University -- Internships for Horticulture, Agriculture and Turf Grass.  
    An International Exchange Program of The Ohio State University specializing in Internships for Horticulture, Agriculture and Turf Grass. We strive to provide the best opportunities for on-the-job training and internships for specially selected foreign and American agricultural and horticultural students. Our goal is to promote the general interest of international exchange in the field of agriculture and horticulture. We work with hundreds of companies in the USA to provide the best possible placements.

    Address:     700 Ackerman Rd Ste 360 Columbus, OH 43202
    Email:    chrisman.1@osu.edu     Contact:  
    Phone:    614-292-7720   FAX:  614-688-8611

                 




               

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